The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

New research shows ancient zircon crystals preserve chemical clues, linking Earth’s geological changes to galactic spiral ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

(AP) Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That’s more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe. Just how ...

In this boundless Milky Way galaxy, what unique position does our Earth occupy? Scientists have discovered that Earth is precisely located in the Milky Way's 'Metal Goldilocks Zone,' where only 0.1% ...

Within the Milky Way you’ll find scattered dark regions that puzzled eighteenth-century astronomer William Herschel, Nigel ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

Milky Way season in the US is coming to an end, but the iconic band of stars, our galaxy's center, should still be visible ...

LOS ANGELES - The Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.